Hasn’t t Ireland got more important things such as Brexit to think about?
Secondly that women Dr Ebun Joseph, should be catapulted to Cambridge as soon as possible. Her co- shrieker, Gopal, will no doubt welcome her with open arms.
Let the (fighting) begin and as for the statues,they are why I visit Ireland along with its history,culture and people. Maybe Ireland is trying to say I am unwelcome.
Indeed. No doubt that cesspit aka Cambridge Uni would make the ignoramus Joseph vice-chancellor, joining that other racist creature Gopal, recently promoted to a professorship! How low that once great establishment has sunk into the cesspool of ignorance, the stench from which is overpowering and vomit-inducing.
No,no. Her co-shrieker should be catapulted to Dublin.
Brian Dorsley
3 years ago
It’s becoming increasingly clear that a lot of people really hate the success of the West and everything that it stands for. Those who have benefitted the most from it seem to also hate it the most too. Unfortunately, in order to accommodate these people’s right-wing hatred we are more than happy to erase our culture, distort our history and dumb down our education system.
‘White privilege’ is an accusation made by those who gained the most from it against those who benefitted the least from it.
‘White privilege’ the inane response from yet another arrogant and ignorant so-called university lecturer who introduced ‘Black Studies’. Can someone there introduce ‘White Studies’ in the name of equality. BLM and the racist absurdities uttered by the likes of this lecturer and the disgusting and insulting Gopal at Cambridge Uni (‘white is trash’) have done a splendid job in antagonising me towards blacks – so counter-productive.
I find she’s done a great job in antagonising me towards Prof Gopal.
Ray Zacek
3 years ago
Marriot Hotel group joins the serried ranks of the corporate Woke.
Martin Adams
3 years ago
What a dismal tale!
I spent most of my life living and working in Dublin. That was at Trinity College Dublin which, at least until my retirement from lecturing in 2015, had been largely free of the idiocy propounded by Dr Ebun Jospeh (an overseer of Ireland’s first university module in Black Studies) and her ilk. It reminds me of the controversies around the use of the word “niggardly” which, extraordinary to contemplate, are still running, long after the ancient Norse etymology of that rather delicious word was settled. Resentment studies know no limits in their search for objects of complaint and for causes to boost self-righteousness.
I think back a few weeks, to the article by Angela Nagle, Will Ireland Survive the Woke Wave? This issue might well be a test answer to that question.
Joe Blow
3 years ago
What exactly does Ebun Joseph mean when she tweets that accepting Kyle Leyden’s word over the judgement of ‘people like her’ is “white privilege”? To adopt the tiresome vernacular of the critical theorists, let’s deconstruct that a little…
Does she mean that we should not accept Leyden’s view because he is white? That she has some special insight into a statue’s history and “meaning” because she is black?
Or that he is wrong because Black Studies trumps Art History?
Or because she actually has knowledge that is possible to present – an actual historical record, perhaps – that proves her point?
If the former, she should be dismissed from the college immediately. We have seen where that kind of reasoning goes – we had dismissal of “Jewish science,” and then we had condemnation of bourgeois science by Lysenko et al.
So perhaps she should be challenged by her supervisor to come up with evidence.
jcurwin
3 years ago
I know where I’m not staying when I go to Dublin.
Adrian Maxwell
3 years ago
I believe the Marriott global chain is owned by Mormon interests (Utah) so it is not surprising the initial removal action was taken. Im sure the Dublin authorities will, as the Irish often do, find a common sense way to satisfy Dubliners and restore the statutes. Once the actual history becomes widely known. The story only serves to highlight the hole being furiously dug by university governance in the western world.
Peter KE
3 years ago
BLM and all other woke activists are nothing but violent anarchist thugs and we need to insist that our governments and corporate leaders stand up to their rubbish protestations and reject them as inept.
Peter Francis
3 years ago
Thanks, David Quinn, for this report. It is a depressing example of our direction of travel. The art historian’s expert view on art history counts for nothing against the views of a social studies teacher simply because the social studies teacher is the correct colour. Presumably there is no point in listening to any expert on anything if they are the wrong colour.
Eugene Norman
3 years ago
All of this is American derived. The hotel, the philosophy, the course founded by Ebun.
Hasn’t t Ireland got more important things such as Brexit to think about?
Secondly that women Dr Ebun Joseph, should be catapulted to Cambridge as soon as possible. Her co- shrieker, Gopal, will no doubt welcome her with open arms.
Not bloody likely. Gopal would be demoted to number 2 spot.
Let the (fighting) begin and as for the statues,they are why I visit Ireland along with its history,culture and people. Maybe Ireland is trying to say I am unwelcome.
Indeed. No doubt that cesspit aka Cambridge Uni would make the ignoramus Joseph vice-chancellor, joining that other racist creature Gopal, recently promoted to a professorship! How low that once great establishment has sunk into the cesspool of ignorance, the stench from which is overpowering and vomit-inducing.
No,no. Her co-shrieker should be catapulted to Dublin.
It’s becoming increasingly clear that a lot of people really hate the success of the West and everything that it stands for. Those who have benefitted the most from it seem to also hate it the most too. Unfortunately, in order to accommodate these people’s right-wing hatred we are more than happy to erase our culture, distort our history and dumb down our education system.
‘White privilege’ is an accusation made by those who gained the most from it against those who benefitted the least from it.
‘White privilege’ the inane response from yet another arrogant and ignorant so-called university lecturer who introduced ‘Black Studies’.
Can someone there introduce ‘White Studies’ in the name of equality.
BLM and the racist absurdities uttered by the likes of this lecturer and the disgusting and insulting Gopal at Cambridge Uni (‘white is trash’) have done a splendid job in antagonising me towards blacks – so counter-productive.
I find she’s done a great job in antagonising me towards Prof Gopal.
Marriot Hotel group joins the serried ranks of the corporate Woke.
What a dismal tale!
I spent most of my life living and working in Dublin. That was at Trinity College Dublin which, at least until my retirement from lecturing in 2015, had been largely free of the idiocy propounded by Dr Ebun Jospeh (an overseer of Ireland’s first university module in Black Studies) and her ilk. It reminds me of the controversies around the use of the word “niggardly” which, extraordinary to contemplate, are still running, long after the ancient Norse etymology of that rather delicious word was settled. Resentment studies know no limits in their search for objects of complaint and for causes to boost self-righteousness.
I think back a few weeks, to the article by Angela Nagle, Will Ireland Survive the Woke Wave? This issue might well be a test answer to that question.
What exactly does Ebun Joseph mean when she tweets that accepting Kyle Leyden’s word over the judgement of ‘people like her’ is “white privilege”? To adopt the tiresome vernacular of the critical theorists, let’s deconstruct that a little…
Does she mean that we should not accept Leyden’s view because he is white? That she has some special insight into a statue’s history and “meaning” because she is black?
Or that he is wrong because Black Studies trumps Art History?
Or because she actually has knowledge that is possible to present – an actual historical record, perhaps – that proves her point?
If the former, she should be dismissed from the college immediately. We have seen where that kind of reasoning goes – we had dismissal of “Jewish science,” and then we had condemnation of bourgeois science by Lysenko et al.
So perhaps she should be challenged by her supervisor to come up with evidence.
I know where I’m not staying when I go to Dublin.
I believe the Marriott global chain is owned by Mormon interests (Utah) so it is not surprising the initial removal action was taken. Im sure the Dublin authorities will, as the Irish often do, find a common sense way to satisfy Dubliners and restore the statutes. Once the actual history becomes widely known. The story only serves to highlight the hole being furiously dug by university governance in the western world.
BLM and all other woke activists are nothing but violent anarchist thugs and we need to insist that our governments and corporate leaders stand up to their rubbish protestations and reject them as inept.
Thanks, David Quinn, for this report. It is a depressing example of our direction of travel. The art historian’s expert view on art history counts for nothing against the views of a social studies teacher simply because the social studies teacher is the correct colour. Presumably there is no point in listening to any expert on anything if they are the wrong colour.
All of this is American derived. The hotel, the philosophy, the course founded by Ebun.